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moderate persuasion and also think the budget process has been too tightly controlled by a few to the exclusion of the many.
“The times they are a-changing,” said some bard, perhaps Bob Dylan. And for the Old Guard Democrats in Virginia they are undoubtedly changing much too fast.
That means essentially that as time progresses and new demographic tides take hold the future political game will be played more and more between conservative Republicans and moderate-liberal Democrats.
Speaker of the House A.L. Philpott, a man of the Old Guard, can probably stay in that role as long as he wants barring Republican capture of the House, but there won’t be another Democratic Speaker like him or his immediate predecessors John Warren Cooke and E. Blackburn Moore, all from essentially rural areas.
John Goolrick, a former political reporter, is now the press secretary for Seventh District Congressman D. French Slaughter Jr’s re-election campaign. Opinions expressed are his own.
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